3.000 horas de sol al año, más de 200 kilómetros de costa, aguas cristalinas y un equipamiento inmejorable en las diversas marinas y estaciones náuticas hacen del Algarve el lugar perfecto para atracar con tu barco en tus próximas vacaciones
Acantilados y paradisíacas playas dibujan el litoral del sur de Portugal, formando un paisaje que cambia completamente según el viajero lo contemple desde tierra o desde el mar....
Jeanne Socrates, 80, is setting sail solo again, but this time for a more relaxed voyage
Jeanne Socrates plans to leave Mexico and will initially head to the Marquesas before continuing across the Pacific. Credit: Jeanne SocratesJeanne Socrates – the oldest person to sail solo, nonstop and unassisted around the world via the Southern Ocean’s five Great Capes – is embarking on a new adventure.
The 80-year-old is about to depart Mexico to sail across the Pacific.
But unlike her last record-breaking voyage,...
Nearing the end of her Project Boat fit-out, Ali Wood visits English Braids to discover how to make rope on an industrial scale…
A selection of English Braids ropeRunning rigging is something you tend to take for granted… until it fails, which is what happened during the boat test of Maximus, our Maxi 84...
Cruising legend Jimmy Cornell reflects on his many years of boat ownership and his quest to create the best liveaboard boat for bluewater adventures…
Jimmy Cornell and his family first set off from London in 1975 aboard their self-completed Aventura. All photos: Jimmy CornellEvery voyage starts with a dream and for me it goes back a long while to when I was a little boy and wanted to become a sailor when I grew up. That dream came true a quarter of a century later. At the time I...
Peter Poland reveals how bilge keel yachts and twin-keel designs won his respect – those that could sail well and stand on their own two feet…
Back in the late 1970s, I found myself on the horns of a dilemma. For the last decade or so I’d dismissed bilge keels and twin keels as ugly and performance sapping appendages. To my eyes, they invariably had the look of casually designed afterthoughts that had sprouted beneath nice hulls just to enable the boat to stand on its own two feet.
The boats that my company built, on the...
Once on board a Cornish Cormorant, you won’t believe that this stable, attractive cat-rigged dinghy – good for camping or as a day boat – is only 12ft in length…
Dinghy Cruising Association member Colin Holt sailing Cornish Cormorant Frances in Liverpool Bay. Photo: John M X HughesThe Cornish Cormorant is an attractive cat-rigged dinghy and I was very pleased when Alex at Anglia Yacht Brokerage was able to locate and deliver one to me. I’d done very little research into the boat but she just looked great and I was not disappointed once I...
There is a common saying that every object on a boat must serve more than one purpose, and I recently learned that the sentiment can be applied to clothes as well. Although we cast off for cruising two months ago we found ourselves dockbound sooner than anticipated when an incredible job opportunity came up that […]
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Marsali Taylor reports on the salvage efforts to raise a wooden vessel at Aith Marina that attracted spectators despite the mizzle and smirr
Hope slowly rises from the water. Credit: Marsali TaylorSeeing a mast sticking up out of the water where a boat should be is an awful shock.
I’d been off the island. On my first day back I walked down to the...
PBO reader Kevin Woods wants to know how to remove mouldy stains from his boat’s interior woodwork. Heritage boatbuilder Colin Henwood has this advice…
Can these black stains in the grain be removed? Colin Henwood has some advice...Kevin Woods from Dublin writes: “I have a 1991 Feeling 286 Special. Some of its timber interior is stained by black lines in the grain – as you can see from the photo of the main cabin door – presumably from having been damp over one or more winters. What are my options to remedy this?”
PBO woodwork...
This Old Boat author Don Casey used the Coronado 35 as the poster child for ugly sailboats. Hollywood must not read such books. In two of the 10-episodes of The Night Agent currently on Netflix, a Coronado 35 sailboat from the early 1970s was used as a hideout for the two heroes of the series. […]
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